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60 million to 80 million people
- It is now believed that as many as 60 million to 80 million people may have died because of Mao's mistakes - making him responsible for more deaths than Adolf Hitler and Josef Stalin combined, perhaps the greatest killer of modern times.
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Feb 8, 2018 · His conclusion: famine killed only 3.66 million people. This contradicts almost every other serious effort at accounting for the effects of Mao’s changes.
Mao himself claimed that a total of 700,000 people were killed in attacks on "counter-revolutionaries" during the years 1950–1952. Because there was a policy to select "at least one landlord, and usually several, in virtually every village for public execution", [169] the number of deaths range between 2 million [169] [170] [165] and 5 million.
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What comes out of this massive and detailed dossier is a tale of horror in which Mao emerges as one of the greatest mass murderers in history, responsible for the deaths of at least 45 million...
Chinese government figures say between 15 million and 25 million people died unnatural deaths during Mao's reign from 1949 until his death in 1976. But both Chinese and Western scholars know those figures are no longer valid.
- I. “The Red Terror”
- II. “All-Round Civil War” in China
- III. Killing For and by The New Organs of Power
- IV. Endless Killing
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The very beginning of the Cultural Revolution in China immediately led to violent mass chaos in June 1966. As indicated by a militant editorial on June 1 in the People’s Daily, an official guideline for the Cultural Revolution, the main purpose of this unprecedented political campaign was to “Sweep Away All Cow-Demons and Snake-Spirits,” which not ...
During the political campaign of criticizing Liu Shaoqi (the President of the State) and Deng Xiaoping (General Secretary of the Party), Mao’s key rivals, in the late months of 1966, the mass organizations, including the Red Guards, were divided into two rival factions nationwide: rebels and conservatives. The former was closer to Mao’s goal of a n...
The goal of the Cultural Revolution was not only to purge Mao’s rivals from the Party nationwide, but also to create new organs of power. According to Mao’s original vision, the new form of government—the revolutionary committee — was to have been established in every jurisdiction by February 1968, the Chinese New Year (Su, 2006: 114). However, sin...
After 1971, the large scale of mass killings gradually subsided, partly due to the government’s effort to restore some order from the chaos after the bloody suppression. Another contributing factor was a new wave of inter-elite struggles that burst out in the Party Central between Mao and his lieutenants during the last four years of the Cultural R...
BOBAI xian zhi bian zhuan wei yuan hui [Editorial Board of the Bobai county Annals] (ed.), Bobai xian zhi[Bobai county Annals] 1994, Nanning: Guangxi ren min chu ban she. BU, Weihua, 2008, “Za lan jiu shi jie”: Wen hua da ge ming de dong luan he hao jie (1966-1968) [“Smash the Old World”: Havoc of the Chinese Cultural Revolution (1966-1968)],Hong K...
Jul 11, 2017 · Historian Frank Dikötter called the ensuing disaster one of the “most deadly mass killings in human history,” estimating that over 45 million Chinese died as a result. And yet few people...
By its end, in 1969, at least 500,000 Chinese, maybe as many as 8 million, died in the uprising. The Cultural Revolution and the Great Leap Forward, remain inerasable stains on Mao's rule. Tens of millions were murdered and starved to death in the name of communism.
